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This story originates from India.
A man died and left seventeen elephants to his three sons. His will said, "My eldest son gets half of my elephants, my middle son gets one-third, and my youngest son one-ninth of the seventeen elephants."
However, there is no way you can divide seventeen elephants that way unless you cut up one of the elephants. Fortunately, though, a wise old friend had an idea. He lined up their seventeen elephants. Then he added one of his own — so they had eighteen elephants. Listen carefully!
Now it was easy — the eldest son got his half — nine elephants — the middle son got one-third of the eighteen, or six elephants — and the youngest son got one — ninth — two elephants. Add them up, you get seventeen. There was one elephant left.
The sons thanked the wise old man who said, "Now I can have my own elephant back." And everyone was happy.
This may be both legally and mathematically incorrect but at least, no elephant was harmed!


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Michigan lost a starting wide receiver earlier this month to a season-ending injury. While it's not as serious as that, the injury bug has now bitten the Wolverines on the other side of the ball as well.
UM head coach Brady Hoke confirmed Monday that starting safety Courtney Avery underwent arthroscopic surgery on his knee Saturday. The procedure and subsequent rehab will keep the senior off the field for at least two weeks.
That means, at minimum, Avery will miss the opener against Central Michigan and, possibly, the following weekend's home game against Notre Dame.
Over the weekend, Avery was voted by his teammates as one of UM's captains for the 2013 season.
"Everything went well," Hoke said of the surgery. "He is in great spirits, and he'll be back on the field soon."
Avery had moved from cornerback to safety during summer camp.
In 2012, Avery started five of the games in which he played. Avery has played in 39 games over the past three years, starting 13 of those contests.


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I have so much to share with you about my 48 hour jaunt to Savannah I can't even stand it. One question: Why are store owners so hinky about letting you take photos in their store? Creative theft? One gave some long excuse about the owner being a stylist for some magazine, which maybe made sense and she was very gracious about it and she recommended the best and cutest bakery to us, so whatever, but the one I really could not figure out was The Book Lady. This is the coziest most amazing little bookshop I've ever visited. It was right out of a movie – half first floor/half basement of a lovely Savannah house, filled with comfy chairs, floor-to-ceiling books, a fireplace, etc. When I asked to take a photo, the grumpy girl behind the counter who had just sold me $94 worth of used books made a face and mumbled something about "revealing specifics." Apparently, in the cut-throat world of used book stores the titles they carry are top secret or something, I guess, I really don't know what the big whoop was. In spite of the rudeness and the lack of photo, you must check out this shop, it really is amazing, especially when the man who farted out loud nonstop the entire 20 minutes I was in there is NOT present.
Now onto friendlier places, we are in love with Moss, located at 137 Bull Street. You can also check them out online.
The proprietors of Moss were much more gracious. I tell you what, someone must be a master merchandiser to make me think that a taxidermied (or was it freeze dried???) squirrel looks good on a wall, but they did. In fact, this store fits in perfectly with the nature study aesthetic we've been featuring here recently. They have has everything from upholstered chairs to quilts, birds' nests to journals, lovely jewelry to letterpress cards. It is an absolute no-brainer to find a beautiful and unique gift in there for just about anyone on your list, no lie. Thanks for letting me snap away, Moss guys!
Now this is how to merchandise:
I'll be back tomorrow with more about Savannah. Right now the other half of my curry chicken salad sandwich on home made bread from Back in the Day Bakery is calling my name. Later!
Hi, I'm Becky. I live in Atlanta. Besides acting as the Editorial Director here on Hatch, you can find me talking design over at Houzz. Make me happy — leave a comment!


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Inclusive-Use Fitness Equipment
Two new ASTM International standards will provide specifications for fitness equipment that will be accessible to users of all abilities, including those with disabilities. The new standards, soon to be published as F3021, Specification for Universal Design of Fitness Equipment for Inclusive Use by Persons with Functional Limitations and Impairments, and F3022, Test Method for Evaluating the Universal Design of Fitness Equipment, were developed by Subcommittee F08.30 on Fitness Products, part of ASTM International Committee F08 on Sports Equipment and Facilities.
The Americans with Disabilities Act requires equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities, including physical, sensory and cognitive. F3021 and F3022 will be used to ensure the development and use of fitness equipment that meets the goals of the ADA.
"Equipment manufacturers and accessibility/usability researchers will rely on the two new standards for the universal design of fitness equipment," says Seanna Kringen, research associate, Beneficial Designs Inc., and an F08.30 member. "In addition, regulatory bodies such as the U.S. Access Board or the U.S. Department of Justice could potentially reference this standard as to comply with future Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibilty guidelines or DOJ rulings."
Kringen notes that having accessible fitness equipment in public fitness facilities creates a broad base of health and social benefits.
"Accessible mainstream fitness equipment decreases costs and facilitates compliance with the ADA," says Kringen. "Increase in activity level decreases secondary conditions and health costs often associated with disability. Affording people with disabilities the opportunity to exercise in public facilities, rather than specialized medical therapy settings, increases the social opportunity to interact with family and friends."
The task group that developed F3021 and F3022 welcomes participation from all interested parties. "As a research/development team, we are always looking for user feedback, specifically from people with disabilities," says Kringen, who notes that the task group is currently focusing on receiving input from people with vision impairment in order to further develop adequate specifications to meet their needs.
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Subjects: One seminar, variable topics. Internship. The Washington Center (TWC) assists students from all academic backgrounds in securing full-time internships in Washington, D.C. Through partnerships with over a thousand organizations in the nonprofit, for-profit, governmental and international arenas, TWC advisors are able to find students opportunities that not only match their professional interests, but also allow them to gain hands-on experience in their respective fields. In addition to the full time internships, students also take one academic course and attend a series of leadership, civic engagement, and professional development programming events. There are up to 30 courses offered each semester and summer across all academic disciplines. Through TWC's programming events, students engage with leaders in a range of fields in both the public and private sectors.
Prerequisities: Junior-level standing is required by Albion College for admission into the program. Other factors that will be considered for admission are maturity level, quality of application materials (statement of professional interest, issues essay, resume, and letters of recommendation), and GPA. The basic GPA requirement is a 2.75, though keep in mind that a higher GPA may be required for the most competitive of placements. Due to background check requirements for some placements, early application submission may also be required. For dates and deadlines, we encourage you to review information on TWC's website. Lastly, all students attending TWC from Albion must be approved by the campus liaison, Patrick McLean, prior to being granted admission by TWC.
Length: Fall or Spring Semester (14.5 weeks) or Summer Term (9 weeks)
Credit: The 4.0 units: 2.0 unit Internship, 1.0 unit seminar, and 1.0 unit for LEAD Colloquium. Summer credit is 2.0 units. Washington Center program is a comprehensive working, learning, and living experience, through which students not only complete a full-time internship, but also take an engaging academic course of their choosing, and attend weekly programming that furthers their professional development and exploration into their chosen career paths. For completion of this program, students receive academic credit directly from Albion College. Upon completion of a 15-week fall or spring semester program, students receive 4 units of credits, two as internship credit and one as seminar credit, and 1.0 unit for LEAD Colloquium. For the summer term program, which is 10 weeks in length, students receive 2 units of credit, one as internship credit and one as seminar, or students may apply both credits towards the internship.
Housing: Most students are housed in The Washington Center's privately owned and operated Residential & Academic Facility (RAF), located in the NoMa neighborhood. The RAF is centrally located and convenient to all forms of public transit, such as the Metro, DC's underground subway system. The Washington Center also partners with other professional-style apartment facilities in the NoMa neighborhood to provide additional housing when necessary. Visit http://www.twc.edu/program-fees for more information on housing.
Cost: Albion College tuition and room charges cover program tuition and room fees.
Costs Not Covered by Albion: The program fees associated with The Washington Center program are covered by students' tuition charges paid to Albion for the semester or term of attendance. Housing fees are paid directly to Albion College. Students are responsible for travel to and from Washington, D.C., as well as local transportation and living expenses while in the program. Depending on lifestyle, it is estimated that students spend between $125 and $200 per week.
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Streaming farm content. 8/13 HM Frost DK PoV
Eternal is streaming live now, pretty sure its mostly farm content, maybe attempts on heroic chogall.
Eternal is doing an alt run to grind for realm first level 25, feel free to watch.
Inno stream is up since 19 cet. Farming bwd hc
Pie Chart's stream up. I feel like vodka is stealin' mah thunder. =( But Cho'gall, Sinestra, Conclave and Al'akir tonight.
Eternal starting on Bastion tonight, possible attempts on heroic AC or Cho'gall.
Innocentias stream is up again. PoV Prot and Holy Pala Halfus HC and Valiona HC first evening @ Valiona
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Eternal is gonna be back streaming soon, probably gonna do attempts on heroic ascendant council and cho'gall.
Any friday streams going down?
Former raider of Accession [US-Stormreaver]
Innocentia stream up, starting with Valiona hc 25m than Nef hc
Rocket Surgery U.S 3rd 10 Man Raid Streams tuesday, wednesday, sunday from 6-11 cst.
Group 1
Xfire.com/live_video/dominater87 Hpally Pov
Xfire.com/live_video/tbtvoltage/ Mt warrior point of view
Group 2-
xfire.com/live_video/zathrog Hpally Pov
Group 3-
livestream.com/anshlun shadow priest pov
apologizes, but i'm not allowed to post links hehe
<No Chicks Allowed> streaming 13/13 heroic 25 man raids tuesday, wednesday, sunday, and monday from 8:30-1 est(7:30-1 on sunday)
Mage pov:http://www.justin.tv/pixul757#/w/1071945456
P.S: raid stream begins tomorrow since we cleared on wednesday this week.
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Eternal streaming again, doing some work on Cho'gall but we might end up doing something else since we don't have the comp we were looking for right now.
<No Chicks Allowed> stream starting up a little early tonight for open chat with the person streaming. Raid starting at 8:30 est.
lol, it's Carador!
Rocket Surgery group 1 streaming @ 7:45 est. BWD + Tot4W
I'll probably put mine up in a few minutes.
e: It's up.
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Fly to Dalarnas Lan (Sweden) with Destinia. We offer you flights at economical prices or in the class you choose. To select your flights Dalarnas Lan, type the name of the city you wish to depart from in the Departure box and write Dalarnas Lan in the Arrival field. Then select the departure and return dates. You can buy several airline tickets to Dalarnas Lan at the same time by indicating the number of adults, children and babies travelling. You can filter the type of flight if you are only interested in direct flights to Dalarnas Lan (Sweden), multiple destinations or flight stopovers.


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As reward expires, group agrees to tackle Stephenson case
Couple found dead in home in May 2011
A reward expires Thursday for information leading to an arrest in the homicide of a Florence couple last year, but authorities said the investigation has taken another turn.
Lead detectives Coy Cox and Matt Mullins went to Philadelphia earlier this month and met with members of the Vidocq Society, a group of 82 professionals who assist in cold case investigations.
The organization of retired detectives, profilers, forensics examiners and other investigators takes only nine cases per year and is named after the 19th Century investigator Eugène François Vidocq.
The group waived its typical two-year period to begin an investigation into the May 2011 slayings of Bill and Peggy Stephenson.
After the detectives presented the case to the group, one member said he believed this was a solvable crime because unique characteristics about the case shed light on the offender.
"The offender likely made disparaging comments about the victims or related family members immediately after the homicides when there were news stories, comments that at the time would have seemed odd to whoever heard them as they had no context within which to evaluate the comments," said Vidocq member Mark Safarik.
Safarik suggested that the offender may have said the victims "deserved it or they should have locked their doors or been more careful, something to that effect."
The Vidocq Society, which donates their time and research, has provided a perpetrator profile information which is giving investigators another option to explore, authorities said.
They're also funding expensive private testing for DNA and any electronic evidence in the case, investigators said.
Investigators have said they have the DNA of at least one person who killed the couple, but that DNA has not yet matched anyone.
A $100,000 reward has expired as planned, but the Stephensons' relatives are planning to donate to the Vidocq Society.
Investigators asked the public to think back to Memorial Day weekend last year and try to remember anyone who may have been in the Oakbrook subdivision, including teenagers who hang out in a plaza across the street.
Authorities said many area high schools had graduation events that night which may have triggered increased drug or alcohol use, hospitalization for mental issues or other changes in personality.
Anyone with information about the case was asked to call the Stephenson tip line at 859-334-8496.


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Ruling party ends up back where it started with assistance for families
We're almost a month into the new fiscal year so it's high time to review any changes in the cost of living for the average person in Japan. Not counting consumer spending, for the most part the change is negligible. Premiums for national health insurance have gone up for those who belong to the kyokai kenpo system, meaning mainly employees of small and medium-sized companies, from 9.5 percent to 10 percent of salary amount, which works out, on average, to an extra ¥780 a month. The long-term nursing care insurance payments (kaigo hokenryo) for persons aged 40 to 64, whether employed or not, have increased from ¥4,516 to ¥4,697 a month. Reflecting deflationary trends, payouts of basic pension have been reduced by 0.3 percent, but premiums have gone down from ¥15,020 a month to ¥14,980. Unemployment insurance has also been cut from 1.2 percent to 1 percent of salary amount. Utilities are going up. Electric bills will increase from ¥17 to ¥42 a month for an average family, and gas bills will increase from ¥8 to ¥11 a month.
These changes won't have a major effect on the average household. But one change that may is the shift in tax rules related to the child allowance (jido teate), which was one of the central proposals of the Democratic Party of Japan's manifesto when it became the ruling party. The DPJ won on the assumption it would pay out ¥26,000 a month per child. By the time the opposition parties got through tearing the proposal apart, the amount had been cut in half, but that payout only lasted a year.
Starting in April, the allowance, which used to be called kodomo teate — the change to jido was supposedly implemented to placate the Komeito Party, who originally came up with the idea years ago under that name — will pay ¥15,000 a month for a child under 3 years old; ¥10,000 a month for the first two children in a family from the age of 3 until they graduate from elementary school; ¥15,000 a month for each child after the second one in the same age group; and ¥10,000 a month for each child in junior high school.
However, in order to get the opposition to accept even this reduced child allowance system, the DPJ had to abolish the dependent child tax deduction starting with tax returns for fiscal 2011, which were just filed this spring. In effect, it means that parents can no longer claim children up to high school, meaning less than 16 years of age, for a tax deduction since they are eligible for the child allowance. High school age children are not eligible for the child allowance so they can still be used as a tax deduction, but the amount of the deduction has been reduced from ¥630,000 to ¥380,000, because the government has now made high school free for everyone, including students who attend private institutions.
Where this change will be felt most immediately is on the local tax (juminzei) bills everyone receives in June. Local tax is calculated based on the national tax returns filed by the middle of March, so because these dependent child deductions no longer apply, individual households' taxable incomes will increase, meaning the households will see an attendant increase in their local tax bills. Of course, it also means higher taxes on the national level, too, but since these changes weren't implemented until last fall and salaried workers' taxes are calculated by the bookkeeping departments of the companies/organizations they work for, they probably didn't notice the slight monthly increase in their pay statements. They will certainly notice it on the local tax bills, since it shows the amount for the entire year. (It also affects the premiums paid for national health insurance since premiums are based on the previous year's taxable income.)
So what does this mean in yen terms for the average family? According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, taking into consideration both the child allowance payments and the boost in tax liabilities caused by the loss of the child deduction, an average family consisting of one breadwinner earning ¥3 million a year, one full-time homemaker and one child will end up with ¥667 more per month than they had before the DPJ came to power. The same family making ¥5 million a year will end up with ¥375 less per month. If income is between ¥8 and ¥10 million, the average loss is ¥4,083, and if it's over ¥15 million it's an average deficit of ¥8,200 a month. To put it another way, according to Sankei Shimbun, the average family making more than ¥4.88 million a year will, on balance, pay more than they did before the DPJ was elected. It's as good an illustration as any of where politics gets you.


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Giving peace advice, humanitarian aid to terrorists can be illegal
The government can prosecute private citizens for giving advice to a foreign organization -- on how to negotiate peace or take its case to the United Nations, for example -- if the group is on the U.S. terrorist list, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
In the most important foreign policy and civil liberties case of their 2009-10 term, the justices ruled 6-3 that a law prohibiting "material support" of foreign terrorist organizations can be used against people who claim to be providing only peaceful, humanitarian assistance.
Any tangible support -- money, legal aid or political advice -- "frees up other resources within the organization that may be put to violent ends," Chief Justice John Roberts said in the majority opinion.
"It also importantly helps lend legitimacy to foreign terrorist groups - legitimacy that makes it easier for those groups to persist, to recruit members, and to raise funds - all of which facilitate more terrorist attacks," Roberts said.
Dissenting Justice Stephen Breyer protested that the majority's interpretation "would deny First Amendment protection to the peaceful teaching of international human rights law," on the grounds that it might enable terrorists to conduct sham negotiations.
Those who intend to aid terrorism should be prosecuted, but any broader use of the law would violate free speech, argued Breyer, whose dissent was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor. The majority included liberal Justice John Paul Stevens as well as the court's conservatives -- Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Furious debateThe ruling touched off a furious debate over the government's power to prevent dissidents from helping blacklisted organizations. The ban on "material support" for foreign terrorists was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996 and was expanded in the USA Patriot Act that President George W. Bush signed in 2001.
Under Monday's decision, "human rights advocates, providing training and assistance in the nonviolent resolution of disputes, can be prosecuted as terrorists," said David Cole, lawyer for organizations and individuals who challenged the law.
The plaintiffs sought to train members of two groups on the State Department's terrorist list - the Kurdish Workers Party in Turkey and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka - in peaceful conflict resolution and advocacy before the United Nations.
Those forms of assistance to such "deadly groups" could lead to prosecution, the court said Monday, while insisting it was not restricting free speech. "Plaintiffs may say anything they wish" on their own behalf, Roberts said.
Carter concernedCivil liberties advocates said they also feared repercussions for U.S.-based critics of the Israeli government, who might be charged with aiding Hamas , which Washington has designated as a terrorist group. One such critic is former President Jimmy Carter , whose private Mideast diplomatic efforts have included contact with Hamas.
The ruling "threatens our work and the work of many other peacemaking organizations that must interact directly with groups that have engaged in violence," said Carter, whose organization filed arguments with the court.
On the other side, Annemarie McAvoy, a Fordham law professor and former federal prosecutor, said the court recognized the "reality factor" of a world in which groups such as al Qaeda thrive on aid funneled through charities.
"By helping the terrorists, even tangentially, they're freeing up the terrorists to focus on other things, such as violent attacks," McAvoy said.
During arguments in February, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, now President Obama's nominee to the court, defended the law and urged a broad interpretation that would allow prosecution of a U.S. citizen who filed a legal brief on behalf of a terrorist organization.
"What Congress decided," Kagan told the court, "is that when you help Hezbollah build homes, you are also helping Hezbollah build bombs."


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Elsewhere …
The mediocre Nuggets are averaging 17,284 in home attendance. That's 16th in the NBA.
The resurgent Avalanche is averaging 15,950. That's 22nd in the NHL.
The relative box-office figures surprise me.
Sunday morning, we already knew that one of Denver's teams — the Avalanche — was going to be playing in New Jersey in the first few days of February. I'm assuming it was coincidence that the NHL had Colorado traveling to face the Devils in Newark, 10 miles from MetLife Stadium, on Monday, Feb. 3, and the Rangers in Manhattan the next night.
That's part of a four-game road trip that will be an additional test of the Avalanche's legitimacy. It gets more challenging after the Feb. 9-25 Olympic break, when the Avalanche finishes the regular season with 24 games in 47 days. Half will be home games. We'll not only see whether the Avalanche can lock up a playoff spot, but also to what extent the box-office business picks up.
So far, it has been an amazing turnaround under coach Patrick Roy, who turned down a chance to return in 2009 before saying yes this time.
"I knew for a bit that I was ready for it," the Avalanche coach said last week. "At the same time, I was waiting for the right timing. The Avalanche was the right situation. … I have so much respect for our fans, so much respect for this organization. When you play for 10 years in Montreal and eight in Denver, these are the two organizations that I have to admit I was looking for, for a challenge."
The Avalanche has been a bit obscured by the Broncos' season, both among fandom and especially the Colorado media with vehicles on automatic pilot to Dove Valley and Sports Authority Field at Mile High. (I get it. I'm not knocking it.) To a point, that's the annual routine for both the Avalanche and Nuggets, who start showing up more on radars after the end of football season. Plus, the attendance figures in the NBA and NHL involve season-ticket bases and offseason single-game ticket sales tied to the previous season.
Yet it's still at least eyebrow-raising that during the Broncomania effect on both teams, the Nuggets are outdrawing the Avalanche in the battle of Stan Kroenke-owned teams. The Pepsi Center's capacity for basketball (19,115) is higher than for hockey (18,007), and each team has had three sellouts, but the full-house figures alone can't explain the Nuggets' advantage. I've covered both teams, and the eye test confirms the Nuggets still are a hotter ticket.
This is not going to lead into finger wagging about the Avalanche "deserving" more ticket-buying support. Nobody getting in free on a press pass credibly can "judge" consumers' spending decisions.
I never will buy into that ridiculous argument that sliding attendance for a bad team in recent seasons and now the lag effect proves Denver isn't a "real" hockey market. That argument never was summoned when Original Six franchises (e.g. Boston, Chicago and, yes, even Detroit) struggled at the gate in the not-so-long-ago past.
The conditions are different from when the Avalanche at least officially had a sellout streak of 487 games from 1995-2006. The relatively box office-dependent NHL has high ticket prices, at least when not discounted in special deals, and that is an impediment.
Once the season-ticket base deteriorated and fans realized they could choose among games, the attendance figures became less of a measure of overall interest than before. Many formerly steady customers can stay home and watch games on HD and circle a few dates on the schedule to head to the Pepsi Center.
But I do admit I expected the box-office effects of the Avalanche's turnaround to be more immediate and more significant. Not judging. Just saying.
Terry Frei: tfrei@ denver post.com


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Here is Martha's {Baby Sock Advent}. Click on the link for a tutorial. She says to put a little gift for baby in each sock - one a day until Christmas. It's cute, huh!?I don't think it necessarily has to be baby socks, or have presents just for baby either. You could do things for the whole family - in big size socks.
Here is a cute idea from {Ali Edwards}
She just numbered different size and colored boxes and tacked em to her wall...
Isn't this train to die for!!??
It's sold out at {Impression}. But, it really looks kind of easy to make. Ok, maybe not easy, but all you'd have to do is get a wooden toy train red and white, then stick on those numbers. I just think it's adorable!! Wouldn't this be cute going around the bottom of your Christmas tree??
{Jordan Ferney} came up with this beauty!
Well, I guess it was her and Potterybarn. That's where she got the shelf. Seems like you could make one pretty easily. She fills her beautifully wrapped presents - I KNOW - with things like this:
December 1: Go Ice Skating
December 2: Watch It's a Wonderful Life, make spiced cider.
December 3: Exchange gifts
December 4: Make Christmas Cookies for friends.
December 5: Find Mistletoe, hang it in our house and kiss under it.
December 6: Address and Mail Christmas Cards
December 7: Go to Borders and Pick out one new Christmas CD.
December 8: Go to The Nutcracker
etc. etc. etc.
So, most of them are things to do together, which I really like. Go {here} for her full list of ideas.
And here are some family friendly ideas from The Idea Room:
1. Decorate the Christmas tree.
2. Write letters to Santa.
3. Build a snowman.
4. Have a snowball fight.
5. Make Christmas cookies and surprise a neighbor or two with a plate.
6. Sing Christmas Carols together.
7. Write Christmas letters to relatives we will not see for Christmas.
8. Watch a Christmas movie.
9. Visit Santa at the Mall.
10. Take a drive to see the Christmas Lights.
11. Clean out old toys and donate to Goodwill.
12. Make a gift for kids teachers.
13. Make some Christmas Candy.
14. Play a game in front of the fire.
15. Watch The Grinch.
16. Learn more about Jesus.
17. Sleep under the Christmas Tree.
18. Do a secret service for someone in the family or a neighbor.
19. Make a gingerbread house.
20. Read an extra Christmas story.
21. Make some reindeer food for Christmas Eve.
22. Read the Christmas story in Luke Chapter 2 and other scriptures.
23. Act out the nativity scene.
24. Listen to Christmas music.
25. Set out cookies and reindeer food for Santa and his reindeers.
26. Read the notes in our love socks.
27. Watch a Christmas special on television.
28. Go sledding!
You could of course do this idea without the 25 box frame. Just number the presents and set them out on something pretty like this image from {BHG}.
And here is probably my favorite idea that I got from this Potterybarn image. I'm totally doing this.
Hang an ornament on your Christmas Tree every day until Christmas. I think if I were to make this, I'd just attach knobs to a wooden board of some sort and just hang the ornaments from each knob. I also would have the ornaments mean something. I love this idea from {Keepin the Castle}. Each ornament has a scripture about Christ associated with it. What a great way to make sure you're focusing on the real reason for this holiday, which I think is all too often forgotten.
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Basic Gardening Myths Dispelled
Basic gardening advice is available everywhere you look, but not all of it is right. Learn more from the authors of Decoding Gardening Advice.
I'm always open to advice. And when it comes to gardening, I find that fellow gardeners are only too happy to help. But here's where it gets tricky. Right when I'm in the middle of applying some of those good, home-tested garden secrets to my yard, a well-intentioned person with his or her own home-tested secrets stops by and tells me I'm doing it wrong. Ugh!
With so many garden myths floating around out there – and just as many helpful gardeners (myself included) passing them along – I was excited at the chance to bust some myths with Jeff Gillman and Meleah Maynard's book, Decoding Gardening Advice: The Science Behind the 100 Most Common Recommendations. Jeff is an associate professor of horticulture at the University of Minnesota, and Meleah is a master gardener. Over the years, they've fielded hundreds of gardening questions and have come across a lot of contradictory opinions. In an effort to set the record straight, they offer some smart, research-based advice to answer the questions they hear most often.
What I love most about this book is that the authors tell you why something works or doesn't, and then suggest a better way to handle a situation. Here are nine myths that really resonated with me, and you can find even more in the book. It's much more efficient than trying to decipher the myths on your own—or waiting for advice from well-meaning passers-by.
Basic Gardening Myth: Don't plant flowers under trees.
Basic Gardening Fact: Flower beds actually can help keep trees healthy. They are also more sustainable than grass in the long run because they require less water. Choose perennials to minimize soil disturbance, and choose the smallest plants possible for the same reason. Carefully work them into the soil that's there, rather than adding dirt for planting.
Basic Gardening Myth: Ladybugs are the best predators to release in the garden.
Basic Gardening Fact: I never even realized people did this! Ladybugs feed on vegetable-eating insects like aphids and mites. The problem is, they're predisposed to spread themselves out rather than congregate in a single spot. (Good news for your neighbors, not so helpful for you.) Jeff and Meleah recommend trying other predatory insects, such as the minute pirate bug (Orius species), the big-eyed bug (Geocoris species) and green lacewing larvae (Chrysoperla rufilabris). Buy from a reputable source (usually online) and release near the insects you'd like them to feed on.
Basic Gardening Myth: Organic Pesticides are always better than synthetic.
Basic Gardening Fact: Jeff and Meleah fully support organic strategies for pest control, but warn against accepting a pesticide as perfectly safe simply because it's organic. Copper sulfate and pyrethrum are both natural, but can be poisonous to people and the environment. When it comes to any pest control, start by identifying your enemy. Once you know the pest you're fighting, you can choose the best strategy. Soft-bodied insects like mites, aphids and immature mealybugs can be treated with a spray of 1 to 2 tablespoons of dish soap added to 1 gallon of water.
Basic Gardening Myth: Full-sun plants grow only in full sun.
Basic Gardening Fact: Ask six gardeners to define full sun and you might get six different answers. Jeff and Meleah define it as at least six hours of unfiltered sun between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., but recommend that gardeners experiment with inexpensive plants to see if they can push the boundaries. Meleah has had success planting "full-sun" flowers in spots that get less than three hours of direct sun, with filtered sun in the afternoon. Her plants are healthy, although they're shorter and sport fewer blooms than a neighbor's specimens that get much more light. And Meleah is just fine with that.
Basic Gardening Myth: Divided shrubs will always come back.
Basic Gardening Fact: I thought this, too, but it turns out these woody plants have woody root systems that aren't as resilient as other perennials. If a divided shrub survives, it will never develop a natural-looking shape because of its limited ability to regenerate. Shrubs that produce offshoots, like lilacs or spireas, have better odds, but overall, the best way to propagate is from cuttings.
Basic Gardening Myth: Veggies must have full sun.
Basic Gardening Fact: This is just one of the myths I learned about veggies. (I also found it's fine to plant vegetables in containers or in rows that aren't straight.) Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash and eggplant need at least six hours of full sun. But more forgiving veggies can get by with less – in some cases, as little as two hours! If your garden is somewhat on the shady side, try growing beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, coriander, leeks, onions, peas, radishes and rutabaga.
Basic Gardening Myth: Divide and transplant only in spring and autumn.
Basic Gardening Fact: Most perennials do best when divided in early spring, as new growth begins to emerge. And in spring and early autumn, you don't have to fuss over them much. But experienced gardeners and professional landscapers move, divide and plant when the need strikes, be it spring, autumn or a summer day in between. Protect transplants from hot summer sun and heat by working in the early morning or evening, or on cloudy days. Water well, and if the plants seem stressed, provide light shade until they adjust. Stop transplanting about six weeks before the ground freezes, or you may lose plants to the cold.
Basic Gardening Myth: Plant trees deeply.
Basic Gardening Fact: Not the best idea, according to Jeff and Meleah. Although tree roots provide several functions, the roots that provide the most air, water and nutrients are just inches below the soil surface. Plant too deeply and it decreases a tree's lifespan, forcing roots to struggle upward for oxygen. Position the root flare, where the main stem transitions to the roots, at or just above soil level.
Basic Gardening Myth: Change potting soil in containers every season.
Basic Gardening Fact: Jeff and Meleah agree with a growing consensus that discarding potting soil each year is probably overkill for most container plants. A valid and affordable alternative is to simply work in a little compost from year to year to improve the soil structure and provide added nutrients. But if you're growing a rare or cherished plant you'd hate to lose to disease, it's worth the investment to change the potting soil annually.


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It was dark even with her night vision. And that seemed to match her mood. She was tired, and irratable. And, thus, more likely to fail her team. She had to moniter the Red vs, No-name sitch, take part in training to young bloods, keep her own emtions in check, and somehow manage to get off this rock, in hopefully, one piece as well as her team.
This was her third lap around the permeter and in as many hours. She closed her eyes and surpressed a yawn, "Kal, your watch," she muttered into the commlink. She popped the visor of her helmet and lightly squeezed the bridge of her nose, she was tired.
Kal bounded out of the ship and toward her direction, "Hangover?" he asked. "Yeah, from the fresh air," she replied. He chuckled, "Off to sleep and food for you, then, Dev. Sleep it off." She snorted and shook her head. She never slept, her history wouldn't allow it. But why worry the kid?
Keeping Kal spirts up she said, "As long as you promise to read me a bedtime story, Uncle Kal..." "Get off to bed," he said in false anger, slightly shoving her forward.
She walked in silence for the ship. She'd wait until morning to get her locket back. En'de could at least keep track of it till then. Throwing her back to the floor, she collasped onto the bed with bothering to take of her arnour but her helmet, and fell into a fitfull sleep.


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'Game of Thrones': The season that conquered 19 Emmy noms
Game of Thrones has triumphed over the snubs and surprises of the television industry's Purple Wedding, otherwise known as the 66th annual Primetime Emmy Awards nomination announcements.
HBO's critically acclaimed series tops the year's Emmy contenders with 19 nods, including for best drama series, announced Thursday morning.
Are you surprised?
The sword-wielding adaptation of George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy series is no stranger to golden trophies, including 10 previous Emmy wins.
Take a look back at the USA TODAY Network's coverage of the past season:
Episode 1: This season, 'Game of Thrones' won't play around | Graphic: Get familiar with the 'Game of Thrones' family trees
Episode 2: Recap: Another bloody wedding
Episode 3: Recap: The Lannisters deal with life after death
Episode 4: Recap: The players come forward
Episode 5: Recap: John Snow for the win
Episode 6: Recap: Tyrion Lannister on trial
Episode 7: Recap: Justice at King's Landing
Episode 8: Recap: Oberyn Martell vs. The Mountain
Episode 9: Recap: Crows hold the Wall | Episode director talks 'Game of Thrones' big battle with giants, gruesome action
Episode 10: 'Game of Thrones' finale shocks | 'Game of Thrones' fans wish Tywin Lannister Happy Father's Day
Bonus: Generator: What are your 'Game of Thrones' house words?


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Monday, June 15, 2009
dieting=public speaking?
Had to laugh out loud when I came across this post by Kirsty Piper from a couple of weeks ago on Jane's List: Five Ways Public Speaking is Like Dieting. (Number one is "when you're finished, stop" and the post equates extra words with extra calories, a very clever analogy.) If you've got any other clever ways to equate public speaking with another common experience, let me know in the comments. Enjoy this good read!
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Well, here we are—the last day of the 21-Day Financial Fast. I remember writing in my original post that it probably wasn't going to be "fun," but I have to admit, I was wrong. I truly enjoyed the Fast and felt all throughout that the benefits far outweighed the challenges. Of course, you might not feel as perky about the Fast at first, if impulse spending is one of your personal hurdles. But I really believe that, as is the case with working out, you'll feel great after you get it done! Here's what I see as the upside of doing the 21-Day Financial Fast, now speaking from experience:
- It's an exercise in gratitude. As I mentioned last week, my main tactic for avoiding an impulse purchase—like an on-the-go bottle of Fair Trade tea or a take-out meal—was to focus on how lucky I am to have what I do. You can't help but fully embrace your family, your health, your home, and your life when each day includes a meditation on what you're grateful for. And, I found, once I count my own blessings, it's much easier to turn my focus away from any unneeded purchases I was tempted to make. The daily gratitude meditation is a practice I'll continue, even when I'm not about to buy something.
- It really does change habits. One of the reasons that I wanted to get Michelle Singletary's 21-Day Financial Fast into the Green American is that I've had success with a type of financial fasting in the past. A few years ago, as part of my spiritual practice, I gave up buying books for 40 days—books being my primary financial vice. In that 40 days, I wanted to figure out a free way to get my new-to-me book fix, so I organized a book swap with a community group, started using PaperbackSwap.com (an online book swapping service), and got reacquainted with my local public library. Since I took that challenge, my book spending improved and stayed that way. I still organize book swaps with friends, continue to trade books via PaperbackSwap.com, and remain a loyal patron of my local library. That said, I do slip up sometimes (as I discussed on this blog), so the Financial Fast was a great way to shift back to my more sustainable habits.
- It forced me to redo my budget. It's important to revisit your budget every few years, to see if you can rein in some unnecessary spending, get or stay out of debt, and save more for retirement and other important goals. Part of the 21-Day Financial Fast calls on participants to create or revamp a budget, so I did just that. Without the Fast, I would definitely have kept putting it off, as revamping a budget is about as fun for me as sticking something in my eye. After retooling my way-too-old budget, I found I could put more money into my savings accounts, so I arranged with my online bank to automatically siphon money from my checking account into savings as soon as a paycheck arrives. I will also celebrate the end of the fast by increasing my contributions to my retirement accounts, as soon as I finish this blog entry.
- Paying with cash helped me better understand that I was trading "life hours" for my expenses. As Singletary points out, paying with cash instead of credit cards makes spending money more "real." You can see the number of bills in your wallet dwindling, whereas if you swipe a credit card, it doesn't look or feel like you're spending anything—and you're more likely to spend more than you would otherwise. I did forget sometimes during the Fast and hand over my debit card at the grocery store, but the process still worked for me. To paraphrase Vicki Robin, co-author of Your Money or Your Life, you trade your life hours at work for the cash you're spending, so it's a very good idea to make what you buy worth the precious time you spent earning that money--time you could be spending with people and activities that matter to you, if you needed less. Paying with cash helped me visualize this message even more.
- The Fast even made me rethink my eating habits. When you focus on spending only on the things you need, it requires a certain mindset that doesn't go away when you enter the grocery store. So when I did my food shopping for the week, I found myself saying no to a lot of my usual snack foods—pretzels or Fair Trade chocolate, for example—because they weren't necessities. If it wasn't a super-healthy option or needed to complete a dinner recipe, it didn't go in my shopping cart.
Singletary herself does the 21-Day Financial Fast each year, to keep her spending in check and to go over her personal finances, ensuring that she remains in the most financially healthy place she can be. I plan to do the same.
How did the Fast help you? Did something not work for you? Will you do the Fast again next year?


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Brewing her success
Leyla Dam, owner of Lorca coffee shop in downtown Stamford, talks to Hearst Connecticut Media about cooking with her mom, letting go of a steady paycheck and what makes a great cup of coffee.
Q: Tell us how you got your start.
A: My best memories were in the kitchen with my mom. It was our time to spend a few moments together, talk about our day, and for her to share what she loved to do with me. That love of cooking was infectious. When I went off to college in New York, I thought I wanted to become an architect but after getting my degree and spending four years in the field, I quickly realized that the practice of the profession was far from my concept of the profession.
I was designing a lot of restaurants that were dedicated to only one food, and I thought that churros and coffee would be a good idea for a small shop. My parents were especially excited because growing up in Spain, my dad would go down to the corner churro store every Sunday to grab a big bag of them for breakfast. My mom would make a thick chocolate sauce on the stove while my dad brewed coffee. It was a family tradition that we all missed while living in the States.
While still working, I started taking some free classes at the Brooklyn office for NYC Small Business Solutions to come up with a business model to pitch to investors and possible landlords.
Then, I set out to learn how to make churros. I got in touch with my cousins in Spain to find a local churro maker in one of their towns willing to give me an internship and show me the trade. I landed in Sevilla, where I spent a month visiting local coffee shops. I then set out to figure out how to make a great cup of coffee. At this point, I decided to move back home with my parents in Connecticut to save money for the business, so I chose a local shop in Darien. I got a job there that lasted a year and taught me a whole slew about coffee while I looked for storefronts in Stamford.
Q: What were some of the hurdles you faced?
A: The biggest hurdle I faced was finding the perfect space. I knew that I wanted to be in Stamford. The city is so vibrant and full of life. It's changing all the time, it's diverse, it's young, it's old, it's perfect. It took a little over a year to find the space on Bedford (Street) where we are now.
Another big hurdle I found was my own fear of failure. I had a hard time letting go of a steady paycheck. I had an even harder time letting people know that I was starting this venture, all the time knowing that if I failed, everyone I loved and knew would be aware of it. I felt like I was doing something completely crazy and it took a lot of nudging from my family and close friends to finally jump off that ledge. Without them, I'd probably still be sketching the furniture and layouts for Lorca today.
Q: What are some of the lessons you learned along the way?
A: I've learned not to listen to everyone. I know that sounds a little strange, but when you're the only one making decisions in a small business, it's hard not to let every suggestion repeat over and over in your head. I've learned to take everyone's suggestions and criticisms and weed through them to find what's most helpful. I learned to revisit my initial concept for the business, make sure that I was being true to myself and the business concept, and be sure that we were giving people good service.
I've also very quickly learned that being a business owner means knowing a bit about how to be a plumber, a mechanic, an accountant, a cleaning lady, and a therapist. Every day is a learning experience.
Q: How would you describe your management style?
A: I would say I can be a little tough. I work on the floor at Lorca 6 to 7 days a week, so I'm usually with all of the staff and I know I can be nit-picky about small details. When I go into a restaurant or cafe, I notice all of the small details so I assume all of our customers do, too.
Even though I can be tough about details, we are always cracking up behind the counter and making jokes with each other and customers. We've all become friends throughout the process, which I think is important. We spend quite a bit of time outside of Lorca together and we celebrate everyone's birthdays together. It's a little like a family.
Q: How do you decide who to hire?
A: Honestly, I go on a gut feeling. I try to find people who are really passionate. It doesn't have to be about coffee in particular. A lot of these passions and hobbies end up being an integral part of what we do at Lorca. One of our baristas used his amazing photography and website building skills to make our internet presence stronger. Another barista is using her love of networking and socializing to create a Lorca community event for newcomers to the area.
Their love for whatever they do in life outside of making coffee is what makes the shop thrive.
Q: How have you weathered the ups and downs of the food business?
A: I've kept a close eye on costs. It's a constant juggling act to keep a small business's bank account afloat. Since we're brand new, it's hard to keep track of any up and down trends and every month is a new adventure. We never know if it'll be easy to pay rent or impossible. I pay myself very little and work on the floor as much as possible to keep costs down.
Q: What makes a good cup of coffee?
A: That is a loaded question! A good cup of coffee starts with good beans. Good coffee beans are like a good steak. The better the steak, the rarer you want to cook it. If you cook or roast them [coffee beans] just right, all of the right balance of flavors, fruit, chocolate, flowers, sweetness will come forward.
Q: Where do you see Lorca five years from now?
A: I would like to see Lorca have another location. One with a little more seating space for customers and a little more kitchen space for us to experiment with desserts and maybe a patio. I'd also love to see our housemade alfajores (delicate caramel-filled cookies) sold in local stores. I don't know where we'll be in five years but I'm excited to see where we all go together. Stamford has been so good and supportive to us and we definitely feel lucky to be able to look forward to another five years because of this city.


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Neeley: Rule could mean lights out in Texas
Two years ago, Texas' electrical grid faced a close call. In August of 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a new regulation, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, which required Texas to cut sulfur dioxide emissions by 47 percent by 2012.
In response, Luminant, the largest generator in Texas, announced it would idle 1,200 MW of generating capacity, closing three Texas lignite coal mines and laying off 500 employees. A study by the Electrical Reliability Council of Texas, which operates Texas' electrical grid, concluded that had the Cross-State Rule been in effect during the hot summer of 2011, Texas would have faced rolling blackouts. Only a stay of the Cross-State Rule, granted just two days before the rule was scheduled to go into effect, prevented Texas from facing this government-induced catastrophe.
That threat may be returning. On Dec. 10, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in American Lung Association v. EME Homer City Generation, the legal challenge to the Cross-State Rule. Should the Supreme Court uphold the Cross-State Rule, the implications both for Texas and for the nation could be profound.
Officially, the Cross-State Rule represents the EPA's latest attempt to deal with the thorny problem of interstate pollution. Because some states lie downwind of others, it is possible that emissions from an upwind state could hurt the ability of downwind states to meet air quality standards.
Unfortunately, the Cross-State Rule bears little relation to this purpose. The Environmental Protection Agency included Texas in a portion of the rule involving particulate matter based on computer models showing emissions from Texas contributing to nonattainment at a single monitor in Madison County, Ill. Yet, despite just barely qualifying for inclusion in the rule for particulate matter, Texas ended up facing reduction targets similar to states with interstate emissions problems more than twice as large. Texas alone accounts for a quarter of all reductions in SO2 emissions required by the rule, despite the fact that the state has already reduced emissions by 33 percent since 2000.
The Cross-State Rule also imperils Texas' long tradition of state autonomy. When it comes to regulating air quality, the law has long recognized a clear division of responsibility between the federal government and the states. Only when a state refuses to develop an implementation plan (or where the plan it develops is legally deficient) is the EPA allowed to step in and temporarily put in place its own plan.
When the agency issued the Cross-State Rule, however, it immediately issued a federal implementation plan, without giving states the required time to develop their own plan. When challenged in court, the EPA argued that states were required to anticipate the substance of the Cross-State Rule, and because they hadn't done so, the agency was free to do as it wished. Texas last year won an impressive victory in the federal court of appeals, which completely invalidated the Cross-State Rule. Now, however, the federal agency is hoping that the Supreme Court will be more receptive to its broad claims of authority.
The EPA's actions represent an unprecedented usurpation of state authority to decide how best to comply with federal air quality standards. If the Cross-State Rule is upheld, the consequences could be devastating for Texas and for the nation. Not only would basic electrical reliability be endangered, but the federal environmental agency would be given carte blanche to use its regulatory authority to effectively control the course of the U.S. economy. That's not something that either Texas or the courts can allow.
Josiah Neeley is a policy analyst for the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.


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The building is a menagerie of energy saving technology and provides all but 2% of the energy required to run the building itself via extremely clever features that gather energy from sunlight and other natural renewable sources. Their 'Keep it Green' motto is part of the company DNA and is something they are rightly proud of.
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Supermicro is experiencing something of a meteoric growth, having increased to 5 times its size in just over 5 years. It is presently the top IT firm in the world in terms of its expansion with annual revenues of $2bn and growing.
The company is a leader in the field of high end computer hardware, servers and IT research and development. As well as doing extremely well on green issues, this is backed up by world-class end to end solutions, big data, HPC, enterprise IT and cloud computing.
Satellite Offices
As well as their California office, Supermicro also has subsidiary offices in the Netherlands and Taiwan. This gives the corporation a global reach to retail its server systems to Europe and the far east through multiple reseller partners. The number of international markets the company is in is quite staggering, boasting as it does, over 800 customers in more than 100 countries.
Despite only being in existence for 25 years (a relatively short time when you consider its current day status), Supermicro offers a massive range of products, from full rack architecture to complete server management and there seems to quite literally be 'no job too big' for the company.
Future R&D
Supermicro is a serious innovator and it performs the vast majority of its R&D efforts internally, which ensures that the design teams involved are able to better communicate and collaborate on development, meaning a shorter wait for new, more efficient technology to hit the market.
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We predict that in the future a large sum of money will be invested in recruiting highly trained and skilled personnel for data handling and downstream analysis. Various physicians, bioinformaticians, biologists, statisticians, geneticists, and scientific researchers will be required for genomic interpretation due to the ever increasing data.
Hence, for cost estimation, it is assumed that at least one bioinformatician (at $75,000), physician (at $110,000), biologist ($72,000), statistician ($70,000), geneticist ($90,000), and a technician ($30,000) will be required for interpretation of one genome. The number of technicians required in the future will decrease as processes are predicted to be automated. Also the bioinformatics software costs will plummet due to the decrease in computing costs as per Moore's law.
Thus, the cost in 2011 for data handling and downstream processing is $285,000 per genome as compared to $517,000 per genome in 2017. These costs are calculated by tallying salaries of each person involved as well as the software costs.
These numbers would be seriously bad news for the future of genomic medicine, if they were even remotely connected with reality. Fortunately this is not the case. In fact this article (and other alarmist pieces on the "$1000 genome, $1M interpretation" theme) wildly overstate the economic challenges of genomic interpretation.
Since this meme appears to be growing in popularity, it's worth pointing out why genome analysis costs will go down rather than up over time:
Genome analysis will become increasingly automated
Right now, anyone who wants to provide a thorough clinical analysis of a genome sequence needs to prepare for some serious manual labour. After finding all of the possible sites of genetic variation, a clinical genomicist needs to identify those that are either known disease-causing variants or are found in a known disease gene, then check the published evidence supporting those associations, discuss their significance with clinical experts, perform experimental validation, and then generate a report explaining the findings to the patient and her doctor.
That's all time-consuming stuff. But with every genome that we analyse, we get better at automating the easy steps, fix mistakes in our databases that might otherwise lead to wild goose chases, and obtain more unambiguous evidence about the clinical significance of each mutation.
The genome interpretation of 2017 won't be a drawn-out process involving constant back-and-forth between highly-paid specialists. It will be a complex but thoroughly automated series of analysis steps, resulting in only a few potentially interesting results to be passed on to geneticists and clinicians for manual checking and signing off. Importantly, it will also be (at least for those who live in the right health systems, or have the right insurance) a dynamic process, where your sequence is constantly checked against new information without the need for complex human intervention.
That's not to say that clinicians and other specialists will be replaced by the machines – genomicists and informaticians will be constantly at work refining the interpretation systems, but their work will be scaled up to the analysis of hundreds of thousands of genomes. Clinicians will provide the same point-of-care attentiveness (or lack thereof, in some cases) as in the current medical system, but they will do so using carefully processed, filtered and validated information from upstream analysis systems. The idea that each of these specialists will play a time-consuming role in interpreting each individual genome is completely unrealistic, and unnecessary.
Finding known mutations and interpreting novel ones will be easier
Right now, publicly available databases of known disease-causing mutations are shockingly noisy and incomplete – a situation I've described in the past as the greatest failure of modern human genetics. This is due to a combination of factors: researchers who published alleged mutations without performing the necessary checks for causality, academics and commercial entities who maintain private monopolies over crucial information from disease-specific studies, and occasional transcription errors by the curators of public databases, to name just a few.
But this will change – or rather, if it doesn't change then we should be deeply ashamed of ourselves as a research community. Right now it's unclear which of the many competing efforts to catalogue disease mutations will emerge as the single go-to source, but I'm optimistic that by 2017 both funding bodies and journals will have applied sufficient pressure to ensure that there is at least one fully open, comprehensive, well-annotated and accurate resource containing these variants.
The list of well-established human disease genes will grow massively over the next 18-24 months as genome-wide approaches like exome sequencing are applied to increasingly large numbers of rare disease families. We will also be able to unambiguously discard many of the mutations currently in resources like OMIM, as it becomes clear from large-scale sequencing studies that these variants are in fact common in healthy individuals.
The end result will be an open-access database that any clinical genomicist can tap into when interpreting their patient data – meaning far less time wasted chasing false leads, and fewer true disease-causing variants missed during the interpretation process. That also means clinicians will be handed increasingly clear, intuitive results to deliver to their patients, rather than a long list of "maybe interesting" variants that they are completely unequipped to make sense of.
Genome sequencing technology will be more accurate
Finally, it's worth emphasising that a lot of the time and expense in clinical genomics right now stems from imperfections in the underlying sequence data. Current short-read sequencing technologies have been phenomenally good at driving sequencing costs down, and across a large swathe of the genome they do a pretty good job of finding important mutations. However, they are still subject to a distressing level of error, and also can't access approximately 10-15% of the human genome that is highly repetitive or poorly mapped.
That's all changing fast. The reads generated by these instruments are getting longer and more accurate, meaning they can be used to peer into previously off-limits segments of the genome. New technologies such as Oxford Nanopore promise even more rapid improvements to these parameters – or, at the very least, promise to drive even greater competition among existing providers to up their game. We can confidently expect that the genome of 2017 will be dramatically more accurate and complete than the genome of 2012. Importantly, because the underlying reads are longer and more accurate, it will also be possible to store the raw data underlying a genopme sequence in a far smaller volume of disk space than is the case currently.
Why the alarmism?
It's worth bearing in mind that there are many people out there with strong incentives to make genome interpretation sound more challenging – and more lucrative – than it actually is. Right now there are dozens of companies launching in the genome interpretation space, and hundreds of venture capitalists who need to be convinced that the market size for genome interpretation is enormous. (I'm not claiming that the authors of the GEN piece have ulterior motives – perhaps they have simply been swayed by widespread exaggeration in the field.)
Let me be clear: in the next 5-10 years, millions of genomes will be sequenced in a clinical setting, and all of them will need some level of interpretation. We will need to build complex systems for securely managing large-scale data both from genomes and (more importantly) from many other high-throughout genomic assays, for accurately mining these data, and for returning results in a format that is easy for clinicians and patients to understand. Billions of dollars will be invested, and some people will get very rich developing companies to create these systems. But the idea that we will be looking at a $500K genome interpretation pipeline is completely absurd.
The annoying thing about this faux obstacle is that there are real challenges ahead. For instance: how can we integrate genome data with information from dynamic, real-time monitoring of patient health? How can we protect patient privacy and build rigorous systems without suppressing innovation? And how can we ensure that new technologies are used to actually improve health outcomes for everyone, rather than simply increasing healthcare costs? None of these questions has an easy answer, and we don't have much time to figure them out – so let's not waste our time building costly, imaginary genome interpretation pipelines in the air.


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Where and how are the Ubuntu equivalent of your personal Windows configuration stored? Something akin to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run as well as the Start Up menu.
I have spotted the System --> Preferences --> Startup Applications menu entry which seems to do some of it, but it doesn't appear to cover most of the things.
I am more concerned with those which a pertinent to a graphics login, either directly at the computer or remotely through
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Using Technology and Personal Touch, Department of Education Opens Government
Using Technology and Personal Touch, Department of Education Opens Government
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and the U.S. Department of Education have embraced President Obama's vision of an open government. The secretary has travelled the country to listen to people's ideas for education reform, and the department is using technology to provide the public with data to track federal spending and to evaluate colleges and universities.
"Everybody wants our schools to improve. The level of commitment from our teachers and principals is extraordinary," Duncan said. "We want to hear the ideas of educators, parents, and students so they will be engaged in transforming our schools to prepare all of our students for success in the global economy."
In 2009, Secretary Duncan and his senior staff travelled the country on a "Listening and Learning" tour, asking for the public's ideas on how to improve the No Child Left Behind Act. The secretary has held events in every corner of the country, including inner-city Detroit, rural villages in Alaska, an Indian reservation in Montana, and a community school Orlando, Fla. He also held a televised town hall meeting with teachers in October.
By the end of the year, a representative of the department will have visited every state to hold public meetings to discuss education reform.
In addition to face-to-face meetings, the Department of Education has used www.ed.gov in innovative ways to provide information about the Listening and Learning tour to the public and to ask for input.
Those efforts have included a blog in which the secretary invites comments on topics he has discussed at Listening and Learning events and invites comments from the public. Some blog entries resulted in hundreds of comments. Duncan initiated follow-up conversations with teachers and others who made comments on his blog.
The department also has used its Web site to share information about the Listening and Learning tour. Videos and transcripts of events held at the department's headquarters are on the Web site as a resource for the public.
The Listening and Learning Tour has been highlighted on the White House's Web site in its Open Government Innovations Gallery.
In addition to the Listening and Learning Tour, the department has taken several other steps to improve the public's access to important government data.
The department is publishing data about federal financial assistance provided to students and families through loan, grant, and work-study programs. The data include recipient and volume numbers for each aid program by school. This will enable researchers, policy makers, and advocacy groups to analyze a school's financial aid data along with indicators of school performance. This research will give the public information on the comparative bang-for-the-buck of federal dollars at work in individual colleges and universities.
The department also provided unprecedented transparency to how states spent money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Based on reporting from states, the department documented that Recovery Act funds saved or created at least 325,000 jobs in America's schools.


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hey i have a bit of an issue with my code writing to a file.
the code has all sorts of fout.write("word shenanigans"); type lines in it, and in other programs that i have written, they all work perfectly fine. But it seems that this latest project is the exception. No matter what i do, short of writing it in myself, since that would defeat the purpose of the project, it will not write the file, only create it.
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Europe is not fixed. Not by a long shot.August 14, 2012: 2:00 PM ET
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Investors seemed relieved by the latest GDP figures out of Europe Tuesday. But why?
Sure, I guess the numbers could have been a lot worse. But the eurozone's overall economy shrunk by 0.2% from the first quarter to the second quarter. And Germany's economy rose by only 0.3% compared to the first quarter. Keep in mind that Germany is supposed to be the star of Europe!
If Europe were a baseball team, Germany might have a batting average of only .255 -- and that only looks good because France (which reported no change in GDP) is batting .240 while Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal are struggling to stay above .200. Being the "best" of a sorry lot doesn't necessarily mean you are good.
Making matters worse, it's hard to imagine how much longer Germany can continue to prop up the rest of Europe.
Economists for brokerage firm Brockhouse Cooper in Montreal noted in a report Tuesday morning that "it is no secret that Germany is heavily trade-dependent." The economists expressed concerns that Germany won't be able to boost domestic demand enough to "buffer against the storm circles in the rest of Europe" and warned that Germany "should prepare for a rocky road ahead as the country's trade partners remain in rough shape.">
The Germans themselves seem increasingly nervous about the rest of Europe as well. A report issued Tuesday by the The Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim indicated that economic sentiment in Germany was at its lowest level of the year, a sign that Germans expect their economy to slow further over the second half of the year.
If Germany can't support the eurozone, who can? France? That's unlikely. So investors should not get fooled into thinking that the debt crisis is over just because long-term bond yields in Spain and Italy have retreated from the peak crisis levels. More importantly, European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi should not get lulled into a sense of false security.
While Draghi obviously would prefer for sovereign nations to fix their own fiscal problems, it's increasingly clear that some European leaders lack the political will (or economic know-how) to effectively do so.
Related: ECB ties bond market aid to government cuts
Draghi still needs to leave all options on the table, including more aggressive purchases of debt from the most troubled southern European nations. It would also behoove Draghi to continue putting pressure on Germany to reconsider its position regarding the issuance of common European debt.
Germany has been reluctant to consider so-called eurobonds because those bonds would likely fetch much higher interest rates than Germany's ultra-low yield of about 1.5% on its 10-year bund. But that's short-sighted. The biggest folly of the eurozone is that the various members share a currency but not debt. This would be akin to the United States having no federal Treasury bonds and instead merely having 50 different bonds and notes for each of the states.
What's more, Germany also clearly benefits from the fact that its neighbors are in such sorry shape. If there was no euro and we went back to a world of drachmas, lire, pesetas, escudos and francs, the Deutsche Mark would undoubtedly be much stronger than nearly all the other individual European currencies. And that would hurt Germany's exporting power around the world.
Germany may not like subsidizing the rest of Europe. But the alternative may be scarier. So hopefully Draghi can show just how "Super" he is by convincing Angela Merkel to work even more closely with France's Francois Hollande and other key European leaders.
Remember that the European crisis has been going on since the beginning of 2010. We've all been waiting for an epic collapse of a nation or big financial institution to shake Europe to its core like the United States was in 2008.
Yet that may never happen. Instead of Greece, Spain or Italy subbing for Lehman, Fannie Mae and AIG, we may continue to get a slow bleed unless Europe finally decides that the only way out of the economic malaise is through actual unified action.
Until there's strong evidence of true cooperation, investors would be silly to buy into any hype about a European recovery. But as the chart below shows, investors in French and German stocks clearly are holding their nose and hoping for the best.


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Don Pasquale's new plan is now get married himself and his friend Dr. Malatesta is to help him in this endeavour. Malatesta however sticks by Ernesto and contrives a complex plot in which Norina and Ernesto have a part to play: Norina is to be presented to the bachelor as Malatesta's well brought up sister Sofronia, who grew up in a convent. Don Pasquale is enchanted by this silent, virtuous creature and enters into sham marriage arranged by Malatesta (but which Don Pasquale believes to be real). Immediately after the wedding, Sofronia (= Norina) changes her behaviour. She turns into a lavish, loveless, snappish shrew who terrorizes Pasquale and is obviously deceiving him. To get her out of the house again, Don Pasquale wants to give his nephew Ernesto not only a rich dowry, but also a home again, along with Norina (whose real identity is still unknown to him). Sofronia's true identity is then revealed. He has to learn his lesson: a man of the older generation should not try to court a younger woman...
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